The Single WORST Feature in Brawl Stars

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In this video, I'm going to talk about gears at length, and explain why I think they're the worst feature in Brawl Stars. I'm going to list the 10 issues I have with Gears, as well as outline a solution that I think Supercell should follow to greatly improve the gear system.
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[@KairosGaming]

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[@mini_jeb3742]

Idk yet, wait how is ur comment 20 hours ago?!!!!

[@Tarfinthatsme]

? 20 hours?

[@stars_in_the_horizon]

@@mini_jeb3742 Kairos might have hidden this video 20 hours ago

[@sharkbitetheshark7993]

Me Who Plays TF2: First time?

[@SIR_GIAK]

Right when gears were realeased, I kind of quited the game because I just couldn't think of how much money and time I had to spend to get maxed out again. It just felt really nice having every brawler power 10 back then.

[@ggboi2071]

Ive been waiting for this vid. Someone that actually gives constructive feedback and the stuff he says relate to what that community feels like. We are lucky to have you man

[@Ishan.khanna]

He keeps sayin gear tokens/scraps are the real bottleneck even though that's clearly false , the first bottleneck will be coins THEN scraps , in his previous video he suggested buying the 2 instead of power points and coins but what's the use if we don't even have lvl 10 brawlers to use them on

[@ggboi2071]

@@Ishan.khanna you clearly dont know what bottleneck means

[@gunxty3037]

Ok mate

[@ggboi2071]

@@gunxty3037 am i wrong tho?

[@boomguy1049]

True, but another problem I have with the system is unlocking brawlers. I’m at 10k trophies and haven’t unlocked a legendary or meaningful epic or mythic brawler.

[@detonator5816]

*Timestamps:* 0:00 - Intro 0:44 - Sponsor 1:45 - People's reaction to previous video 2:25 - Reason for this video 3:26 - Issue #1 (expensive) 4:24 - Issue #2 (not worthwhile) 5:26 - Issue #3 (p2w) 6:55 - Issue #4 (balancing) 8:13 - Issue #5 (decision paralysis) 9:24 - Issue #6 (gear tokens) 10:16 - Issue #7 (buying scrap) 12:23 - Issue #8 (competitive scene) 15:00 - Issue #9 (boring decisions) 16:28 - Issue #10 (can't add more) 19:00 - Reworking gears 19:39 - Rework #1 (equipable to every brawler) 21:51 - Rework #2 (remove gear tokens) 22:59 - Rework #3 (increase cost + add more gears + add more levels) 27:29 - Rework #4 (3rd gear slot) 30:03 - Rework #5 (scrap purchasable with gold) 31:07 - How to implement these changes 32:33 - Conclusion _Please watch the whole video as these are just timestamps providing a brief outline of what will appear!_

[@comicalburrito2870]

Wow

[@samuelvis04]

Bruh what made you want to do this that’s a lot of work 😭

[@RubzTheGrubz]

You forgot “and then play-doh ice cream gets nerfed…… somehow” at 8:46

[@idontknowwhatyouretalkinga5722]

@@RubzTheGrubz thsnk u for reminding me

[@Fiona-oq4dn]

Thanks bro, this is really helpful.

[@airlogg879]

Thank you for being so honest. I am playing Brawlstars since it went global. Have been watching you ever since. Keep making awesome videos.

[@apple_juice.5237]

sheesh 10€

[@LDog186]

Rip he didn’t even see it

[@saifxali1]

@@LDog186 😔

[@__.-Kat-.__]

i know no one cares but im the 100th like lmao

[@saifxali1]

@@__.-Kat-.__ 💯

[@Willkutcherisbetter]

When you first mentioned the idea of 3 gears in a past video I was skeptical… now it’s very intriguing even with just the 5 “bad gears” that we have now. With three slots I could ALWAYS take movement speed in bushes with Rosa or bo and then still decide 1 or 2 other gears that I might want to change

[@jr5034]

I actually thought about the Search for a Team feature for some reason

[@snowman3456]

@@jr5034 lol how

[@jr5034]

@@snowman3456 you know when he says the single worst feature

[@asterisk2598]

@@jr5034 hahahaha

[@joaquimpower477]

17:32-17:36 “Or a panic gear that increases your attack while you’re stunned” Makes sense.

[@YeruzaBS]

I died when he said that too 🤣🤣, still agree we need a gear rework

[@h_haz]

Better idea: increases your defense (you get a shield) while your stunned

[@joaquimpower477]

@@h_haz That… actually makes legitimate sense. I see what you were trying to do there, but…

[@KairosGaming]

Haha maybe I should have spent more than 10 minutes thinking of them 😂

[@chloemchll3774]

@@KairosGaming see, I gave you the benefit of the doubt and assumed you meant “increases your damage AFTER you’re stunned for a little while” so that if the enemy doesn’t kill you while you’re stunned you can unload some serious payback. But yeah, adding defense (reducing damage) while stunned would make more sense probably.

[@lerey4348]

Gears for me wasn't the best idea, because they broken game a bit, and it changed to P2W right now

[@rishirai2476]

I agree

[@Zingy69420]

Nah i think gears are fine u should be good if u get ur brawler to power 11 or even 10 is kinda good Although those toxic spoiled kids who spin and emote on us so maybe need to Nerf the price of gears a lot

[@boredsauce346]

Are they likely to do something about gears?

[@omegabrain230]

@@Zingy69420 but even then 1. it limits choice as most players will max out only a couple brawlers 2. if said brawlers get nerfed into the ground then your gears were wasted on worthless brawlers since for some reason gears can’t be refunded which is a big problem when they change or replace gears 3. as someone who had a max account that was pretty much completely f2p before gears were added it feels kinda disheartening 4. gears mean playing power league especially feels unfair as that’s where I see so many level 11 My point is I feel gears completely screw up the skill gap, it makes the game p2w and they still have so many other problems in my opinion No hate just my opinion

[@S0aph3ad]

Gears changed me from f2p to p2w

[@GreenGuyGrandish]

A great rework to gears would be, if at the cost of having some of your stats weakened, the other stats would be greatly increased(i.e. a health buffing gear that takes away speed, or a damage gear that takes away health) That way, using gears does not necessarily make you stronger, but rather allows you to better find a playstyle fitted specifically for you, and makes gearless brawlers still good matchups against geared up brawlers.

[@spellfox_]

I think that's a nice idea but I understand why gears should make brawlers stronger. Otherwise it doesn't feel worth leveling up, especially when you consider how insanely overpriced they are

[@sacrificiallamb4089]

I like this idea. Gears should either change the way you play or enhance it, not just give you flat buffs that destroy the game balance. I just feel like it’s better to just remove gears entirely.

[@valerafox7795]

Yes I know it's truly cool! Like it's just a better adjustment rather than an advancement, anyways given for the moneys, but now you just Buying A Choice!!

[@spellfox_]

@@sacrificiallamb4089 I don't think gears are an inherently bad idea, if they weren't completely p2w and if there would be actual strategy to choosing which gear you use, they could add some more skill to the game, which it sorely needs.

[@sacrificiallamb4089]

@@spellfox_ The problem is that what you just described are not gears. Those are gadgets and star powers. Gears, at least in what Kairos and Supercell are thinking, give stat boosts. This does not change much about the way you play, it literally just makes you stronger. You do what you do, better.

[@gabrielcsillag4693]

Imagine that on top of the shop icon, there was the scrapyard where you can see all of the gears and control it better just like with brawlers. It would give a bit of possible lore and it would just look cool

[@welredd]

Kairos: Here are the problems with gears Also Kairos: Lists every single aspect of the gears

[@thutran9425]

He’s not wrong.

[@bingusbongus3109]

@@thutran9425 yes he is

[@thutran9425]

@@bingusbongus3109 explain.

[@bingusbongus3109]

@@thutran9425 gears are way worse than he says it is

[@thutran9425]

@@bingusbongus3109 this video is meant to be constructive criticism, meaning that Brawl Stars devs could watch this, take what he had in mind, and use his ideas to make their game better. Gears are horrible, but Kairos didn’t make this video to tear down Brawl Stars, rant about how bad it is, and scream at a camera; he wants to make Brawl Stars a better game by making this video, mostly because his literal career is making videos about it. I do agree with you, but just know where Kairos is coming from and what he’s trying to accomplish here.

[@namanb90]

Really like the ideas you've shared for improving gears. Anyone can complain but the way you've designed a solution is commendable

[@Ishan.khanna]

His reasons were skewed to a money spender perspective but his solution is decent and actually attainable

[@darkangelsmarine]

They could make gears by brawler class: Sharpshooter; Thrower; Support; Fighters; Heavyweight; and Assassin. This would increase the feeling of account progress, while giving supercell an oppurtunity to create more niche and/or meta defining gear. As a balancing tool these gear option would be versatile.

[@sewykik5004]

13:43 i agree, this is a huge issue for the game- i've lost interest because its just not rewarding enough to push my brawlers a tiny bit each season. it's more fun to just do quests. as a result, even as a f2p player i have star powers and gadgets (and some gears) for all my brawlers and it feels scummy to play overlevelled.

[@metatroid1251]

Love the rework idea. Gears definitely don’t add enough depth for their price. The only part I am unsure about is the ability to put any gear on any brawler at any time. Maybe gears should be unique to brawler classes or something similar? But I do believe your suggestion is incredibly better than the current system and it has me actually excited. Hopefully Supercell takes this to heart

[@bat7302]

It would make more sense to separate by classes when more gears are in the game because like gears for short range would be good for tank class

[@arian_ki9095]

@@bat7302 That would be a great idea, it gives more depth to different classes. In the current situation classes are "just some letters" for me

[@juans9515]

To be honest, I believe that supercell knows what they’re doing. They purposely make it extremely frustrating for the casual player so that eventually they bite and feed them the money. COC, CR, and BS are such good games, but supercell will always prioritize money. I am a F2P player and somewhat play the game, I played a lot before yet once I realized I would never stop being frustrated (I will always be F2P) I decided to stop devoting myself too much in the game and just progress slowly because challenges are still fun… DONT FEED SUPERCELL

[@spellfox_]

I honestly think that's the most important of the reworks and shouldn't be left out. It allows supercell to add new gears without severely increasing the time it takes to level up. It also addresses the decision paralysis issue Kairos mentioned, which I definitely agree stops me from enjoying the little pleasure gears currently bring. I have only a couple level 11 brawlers, and only crafted gears on a fraction of them. And I've been playing almost daily since global launch. I think letting gears be used on all brawlers fixes this perfectly.

[@spellfox_]

@@juans9515 I don't think it works like that. By making the game frustrating and p2w, supercell has made me lose interest in the game, and consequently far less motivated to spend any money on it. There's so many other great games that feel worth my money, brawl stars isn't one of them in its current state. Like even if I would spend money, the progress needed to max out is so immense I would need to spend hundreds for it to even make a noticeable difference.

[@LilZumi281]

Before the gears update I had was just getting the gold to upgrade my final 4 brawlers to power 9 and was very excited about my “reaching the endgame” then gears were added and I lost that endgame feeling. I really appreciate this video kairos it’s amazing that creators like you are able to suggest changes like this that we would all appreciate.

[@krafty9078]

I think they should make a gear forge. You could put a max of 4-10 gears in at a time, spend 100-200 gold per gear, wait 1-24 hours, and get a gear of your choice. Some people might say its a waste of gold, but being able to change it is better than not being able to

[@Lorenzo-tl6xb]

I have 12 lvl 11 brawlers and after playing with gears for months I can say that I agree with pretty much everything you said in this video. I was excited for gears but after a couple of months they stopped "being fun" and in convinced that your solutions would not only fix the current issues but also allow Supercell to get around the others (like them not being able to add new ones without adding years of progression). As someone who has being playing sisnce the beta I believe the changes you suggested would make this system what I was excited for during that brawl talk

[@AbhishekMSTE]

How do u have 12 lvl 11 brawlers when I only have 4 lvl 10

[@Lorenzo-tl6xb]

@@AbhishekMSTE legendary 3 club league go brrrrrrrrrrr

[@SomeCowguy]

Gears are basically just 7 month progression cap, overtime that extra hp regen and 600 shield makes a huge difference

[@Lorenzo-tl6xb]

@@SomeCowguy Gears do have a big impact on matches, what im trying to say is that with the small amount we have they are not that exciting as they are rather generic abilities and you'll pretti much see all 6 players run the same 2 gears on a map most of the times. This could be fixed by adding more gears but the current system doesn't allow Supercell to do so without big consequences. With that said I really like Gears and I hope this feature reaches it's full potential with a rework

[@Vipsta]

How many trophies u have

[@vurvo574]

I really hope Supercell listens to this video. These points are really good, keep it up Kairos! I do think that one new game changing gear each update is a big ask though, maybe every couple of updates. Even with transferring gears and decreased cost, it might be too expensive and have too many options for an average player and Supercell themselves to handle.

[@umi.1498]

nah they won’t they money greedy

[@spellfox_]

Yeah I agree but that really depends on how they fix the gear system. If gears aren't as unfathomably expensive as they are now, leveling up one gear every season could become reasonable

[@Keyturk]

I COMPLETELY agree with issue 8. I’ve stopped pushing trophies because it’s so boring. And when I unlock a new brawler, it’s boring to play against bots for at least 10 matches afterwards. Even if you get beyond bots, if you lose a single match below 500 trophies, you instantly play with bots again, and that just makes the process of pushing even more boring than it already is with playing against people who aren’t as competitive anyway. So I’ve put all my time into power league (aside from club league and quests) because it’s so much more fun due to the more competitive nature. I also love the idea to have 20 different gears that can be put on anyone. It just sounds way more fun than what we have. Obviously there would be some drawbacks (not exactly sure what they would be atm, but we would discover them eventually), but I feel like they wouldn’t be as severe as the drawbacks to the current system I completely agree with everything else as well, gears are just kinda gears right now, they don’t add that much value, and having more of them would be so cool

[@IlDogeIslamico]

I think that also casual players like me would greatly benefit from the rework, as it would not only introduce more fun interactions and game mechanics to the table, but it also would make them much more accessible, making the game more fun to play.

[@dtn8647]

I never liked gears in the first place. I originally thought they were gonna be super cool and useable for all players. But supercell had to foul it up by making it at level 10 and 11 and it had to be pay to win. I wish there was a feature similar to gears and they were f2p for all players and fun to use besides gadgets

[@boredsauce346]

Idk why they decided to launch both lvl 10 and 11 at the same time. That really made it worse.

[@PancakemonsterFO4]

@@boredsauce346 i think that's because everyone would jump on damage gear immediately, well, except for pre-nerf speed on tanks like el primo

[@switchmanin]

Plus it ruins my OCD. I hate going into my account and seeing an odd number as the max number. I know its stupid, bit that just feels wrong. I agree, they should have reworked how power 10 worked and make that the max for now.

[@isaiahruegemer6907]

Omg same I hate that 9 is max

[@Ben10_Brawl_Stars]

Hm yea I would suggest they remove power level 11 and make one gear available at level 8 But the players who actually upgraded to lv 11 will be mad

[@artturisairinen3255]

You could say the way Supercell implemented them really grinds our gears.

[@Mr.Capgras]

So funny I want to kill myself

[@idekkkkkk5647]

*ba dum crash*

[@azayaka5273]

*Ba dum i wanna diee*

[@mememan0069]

AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA

[@drumpf4177]

Adding to your point of more general gears and specialized gears, a gear tier system (like an upgrade path) might work too!

[@Swatotastic]

The expense issue really hit close to home. I've been playing virtually every day or at least every other day, completing every battle pass etc. (Fully F2P) and only recently was I able to get my Bull maxed out.. it makes it so hard to compete in the 800-850 trophy range as a power 9 against fully maxed out brawlers that have 1200 more HP and significantly better damage/speed..

[@kishuthegreat2417]

I think they shouldn't replace the resistance gear to vision gear, they should keep resistance gear and add vision gear... And if they want to replace the gears, they should restart that specific gear by giving the ability for crafting that, by restoring gear tokens used for the replaced gear.

[@comicalburrito2870]

I actually hated gears when it was first released cause it was a lot of progression to obtain them but honestly thanks to club league it's not that bad,but I will agree it needs a lot of improvement. Edit: also personally I feel like the real grind is the Power points and coins you need to max out one brawler it is alot.

[@tyler-brawlstars2030]

Yea I mean I wasn't really excited for the whole power 11 that came out because I was so close to being maxed out after years of grinding and then power 11 came out and now it feels like I'll never be maxed

[@3twibles4sweetrevenge]

No you can just buy PowerPoint from the club shop

[@comicalburrito2870]

@@3twibles4sweetrevenge yeah so you spend your club coins on that instead of gears or scrap

[@andrewlaskas5945]

Yh its so annoying reaching lvl 10 and still receive power points to that brawler

[@Jayderzomb]

Imagine a gear that charges your super 30% each kill you make, or a gear that increases your main attack range by 0.5 tiles, or a gear that charges your super over time (just like Darryl or Edgar), or a gear that charges your super with one less shot. There are so many possibilities but with the current gear system this isn’t possible and that’s a shame.

[@ilno]

This is what Kairos is talking about, it doesn't have to be very strong or broken, all it needs is that they benefits ALL brawler

[@TheMagneticDude]

What would be interesting is if you could share gears that are specific to only that brawler's trio between them and are unique to that trio too. This also kind of ties into the lore a bit

[@dudeters]

This video defines how ive been feeling for the last few months. I have SOOO many brawlers at lv10 without a single gear crafted because i buy all the brawl passes and do my CL every week but, none of that offers enough scrap just from casual progression (unless i buy scrap straight out of the cl shop which i wont) I really hope they do some reworks or changes.

[@nawamre_h]

Gears changed the game on a fundamental level, so many intended interactions are broken by it and the fact that it's so difficult to obtain made the game feels grindier and less rewarding to play, it almost stopped me from playing the game entirely It especially matters in power league where not having gears is a major disadvantage, some matches even feel unwinnable because the enemies have gears If I were given the ability to fix it, I would make it so that gears are special abilities that gives brawler unique abilities, they don't increse stats however, so no passive health or damage increase, I would also make it so that once a type of gear is unlocked it would be available to all brawlers

[@KhAOZ59]

I mean, u just described star powers and gadgets

[@Gold_Gamer_100]

Same, i had 2/3rds of my brawlers to lvl9, life was good, then all of a sudden, gears came into the game. When I realized i had to get 3x the progress i needed, when the update came out, I nearly quit the game feeling like gears invalidating my the time i spent in the game before the update...

[@nawamre_h]

@@KhAOZ59 I didn't explain clearly how my vision of gears would work The difference is that star powers is specifically designed for that brawler to use, while gears would be more general attributes that any brawler can make use of Like maybe a gear that gives small movement boost after attacking with your last ammo, or a gear that gives a small shield for a 2 seconds when your health drops below a certain threshold, or perhaps a gear that allows you to charge your super faster when you're below certain percentage of your hp for those clutch plays Keyword being small, as to not make balancing the game harder Maybe some gears would be taylor made for tanky melee brawlers, some others are for assasins, But my point is that you can use it on any brawler you want, the current gear system is very limiting and doesn't allow for experimentation, universal gears would make it less grindy to earn them since you'll only need to unlock it once to use them on any brawler

[@KhAOZ59]

@@nawamre_h I agree with u, my last comment was specifically for the last paragraph of ur original comment, what u described in that paragraph is basically gadgets

[@andrewbartels1194]

I came up with a few things that I think would be really cool: 1. You can filter in certain aspects of clubs (club league rank, trophy amount, trophy amount required, number of members)so it's easier to find available clubs that fit your criteria specifically 2. A gifting system where you can gift people gems and cosmetics. You could also use this to trade gold for gems if people need tons of gold 3. A report system to report teamers or other things 4. I think that Gear scrap should drop like 10-20% more in boxes so it doesn't take so long to max an account 5. Power point offers in the shop should cost 1 gold=1 power point because getting every brawler to power 11 would be so much quicker 6. I think it would be cool for you to be able to trade pins with clubmates and friends so you can swap pins if you don't like a certain brawler. For example, I got mortis love out of a normal pin pack and I don't like mortis much but it's my friends favorite pin so I could trade it for pins for dynamike, colt, and carl (my favorite brawlers).

[@abelhato6521]

Great video kairos! I agree with mostly everything but I would like to share some opinions. I disagree with supercell adding more and more gears it will make the game to confusing especially to new players trying to get in a more competitive way of playing. I still think they should add a few more ideas and I have some like a hitbox gear that increases the enemy hitbox (maybe 15/20/25) after dealing damage to him for a few seconds (maybe 2) or maybe a health gear that keeps the healing even if you attack at 10% or something. Also I don’t know if I am the only one but for players who weren’t maxed before level 11 clube league doesn’t feel like a progression boost, I keep stacking clube coins because a few reasons: 1-Gear Scrap and Gear Tokens aren’t needed since we have few power 10+; 2-All of my brawlers have lots of power points but I can’t upgrade them because lack of gold, and I only spend gold to upgrade brawlers; 3-Gold has a terrible value and it seems like a waste to buy it.

[@sharkbitetheshark7993]

Kairos: They haven't updated gears in 6 months! Me who plays tf2: First time?

[@luis2008mercado]

valve really needs to help tf2

[@thirdie5th713]

what does TF2 mean?

[@thirdie5th713]

what does TF2 mean?

[@sharkbitetheshark7993]

@@thirdie5th713 team fortress 2

[@sharkbitetheshark7993]

@@luis2008mercado mhm ive put way to much money getting unusuals lol

[@XxThunderstixX]

I appreciate this video Kairos. Not only is your criticism constructive, but extremely well thought out. You not only identify the issues, but propose logical and thoughtful solutions to an issue becoming more and more urgent. Absolutely love the content and really hope Supercell takes a heavy inspiration from this video as the proposed changes tackle every weakness that currently exists with gears!

[@XxThunderstixX]

The one change I would propose to your current solution is offer the coin to scrap exchange earlier than every brawler being level 11. Maybe after the first 10 brawlers of yours reach level 11 would be a much better starting point.

[@EthanSimmons06]

my idea is for there to only be one gear slot, which would be level 10, and for level 11 to give a class-specific buff instead. For example: -Lvl 11 assassins could do extra damage when at full ammo, which would be useful for assassins specifically because they try to use all their ammo at one moment. -Lvl 11 sharpshooters could do extra damage at a distance (stacks with piper), which would be useful for sharpshooters because they do best in long range fights. -Lvl 11 support brawlers could get buffed healing / support abilities, which would be useful because support brawlers help teammates more than they get kills. etc. etc. The point of the lvl 11 buffs would be that they only make sense for that one class. You had a similar idea by suggesting gears which only make sense for some brawlers, but i think that would be weird since not many people would spend all that scrap on a gear that is super specific.

[@gelatine_ac]

It would be fun if Brawl Stars gears were more like runes in League of Legends. Free for everyone to use and experiment with, but maybe unlocked at a certain level. It's already a bit much for players to have to grind gacha boxes just to unlock and upgrade brawlers, so having aspects of playstyle that players can control is just very nice to have.

[@dld33w34]

And add more gears to use although you still let us upgrade them and once we do it upgrades for every single brawler on the acc making it worthwhile to upgrade the gears edit:grammar

[@Firefly256]

So basically just allow players to use gears in map maker right?

[@dld33w34]

@@Firefly256 no I’m talking about the rune system idea

[@Firefly256]

@@dld33w34 I don’t play LoL, so I’m just basing off your “free for everyone to use and experiment with” sentence. Can you elaborate more?

[@UserMatt21]

Honestly this feature would have been better if individual brawlers got "traits" each time they upgrade instead of gears, where traits would either be role based or individually different for each brawler. Gears has potential to be Good BUT remember having similar mechanics makes the game quite bland (and that's honestly what gears impacted over the course of the game ever since that update).

[@hicham191]

Or every brawler should have one trait like eve buzz tanks... It's unfair that just few brawler have a trait

[@sacrificiallamb4089]

@Meloncholy | 爱 I’m so happy someone other than me has brought this up. Gears just buff your stats, stats that were balanced beforehand. If you buff something that is balanced then it’s obviously not balanced anymore. A few Belle shots and Buzz supers later and would you look at that, the game broke. Gears allow you to do things that you should not be able to do. Period.

[@gameryl3900]

I pretty much agree with everything in this vid. Here’s a suggestion: In the video, KT talked about 3 gear slots. I think 1 or 2 should be a special gear for the brawler, like for example a shield when dashing for Mortis, or more damage the further Colette goes(could have a max of 5/10/15% more) or something like that. As for the current 5 gears, Brawl Stars should rework the speed gear. As KT mentioned before, some gears are not good for certain brawlers; but rather for the map or enemies you face(making Power League slightly better since you can change your gear after everyone decides on their brawler). Currently only Speed gear needs a rework after the Resistance gear rework. Maybe instead of speed in bushes it could be speed when falling under a certain percentage of health(like Rico’s Robo Retreat but not as fast when falling under greater health) or maybe going faster for every enemy you hit in the past 5 seconds(cool mechanic right?). Maybe some new gears(if they are added) could have that mechanic: like healing for every enemy you hit in the past 5 seconds(benefiting short rangers or brawlers with wide range. This could also make falling back a harder decision since you could heal up by hitting enemies) or dealing more damage with every hit in the past 5 seconds. A less confusing version could be a maximum cap(for example the damage one would be dealing more damage with every hit, 5/10/15% and it could not increase further from 15%. It would simply stay until you did not land a shot in 5 seconds. Could be broken but I’m sure Braw Stars or KT will find a way to balance this. Btw if you’ve read this far then tysm for staying. Drop a like if you like this and maybe comment if you have other thoughts on my ideas. Edit: So I just thought of something: if Brawl Stars can’t do anything we mentioned yet because it takes too long; they can still do one thing: make gear tokens usable on every gear. One problem is that gears like health and vision gears aren’t really commonly used compared to damage, speed or shield. I have a problem where I just have too much health and shield gears that I don’t know what to do with. The thing is the brawlers who are good with them aren’t very viable everywhere; for example Primo. Shield is slightly okay; I could use it on Crow or Spike, but it is still a lot compared to the damage tokens I have.

[@owentrafton6267]

Just starpowers tho

[@kirbo6437]

I agree with pretty much everything in this video. I would love to see gears working like this. Being able to have any gear on any brawler is a great idea and it would encourage for there to be many more gears in the game. I think they should bring back the old health and resistance gear if they did do it like this. Supercell if you are watching this video, please at least take these ideas into consideration

[@therealgregplays]

When gears were released, I always hated it until now. When it was first release, the coins and power points you have to get is MONTHS of progress. All p2w players can abuse their power 10 and 11 brawlers with gears. Still to this day as a f2p player I haven’t gotten all my brawlers to power 10 yet. And yes, supercell has done nothing with the gears problem. New players in the game have to progress so much more and soon much more. Plus the fact that supercell replaced power points and coins in the brawl pass with sprays is just insane. Also this made the game more p2w. Super must have made a gear unlock in level 8 so more players can actually experience using gears and making the second one either not have a 2nd in the first place or make it power 10. We all hope supercell fixes it soon.

[@kinggamereon653]

I feel you I was f2p and maxed out just fine before the gear update now I've used 500+ euros and I'll still need a few months to even have every brawler lvl 11 not even talking about the gears for them The game sure got expensive real fast

[@noahwhitney9773]

same, ive been playing for at least a year and only have one brawler at level 10 with one gear. wtf as f2p its so freakingg hard to even have enough gold and scraps to upgrade brawlers and gears let alone the power points.

[@The_Big_Cheese6665]

I'm with you guys on that

[@kinggamereon653]

@@noahwhitney9773 oh damn, I never realized it was this bad I assume you've been spending your club shop resources dividing them for all brawlers then? Also another issue with this gear system is definitely to the f2p or low spender "competitive players", for example my friend with 49k, mythic 2 on both pl and quite a lot of rank 30s It's an absolute pain for him to maintain what he achieved with 3 lvl 11 brawlers and like half at lvl 10

[@Wasted117.]

@@kinggamereon653 mythic 2 isn't hard to maintain on na servers. Heck even on EU where you face 50ks every game I'm making do on my second account with only 3 maxed (mains banned for 3 time cc glitch)

[@ArchitMoharir]

First of, Thank you for spending your time on a ‘hard’ topic ,and being the voice of us. - I agree with the first slot at power level 8 - I agree with the 5 levels for gears too - 1 think I would like to suggest is, A) remove all the gear tokens , but we purchase each with only scrap , this way the player has more control over the progress he choices and does not have to rely on chances or rng to get that token from box or available in the club shop. B) If we DO NOT intent to remove gear tokens, I would like to remove each category of gear token ( i.e damage, shield, etc) and just make them wild gear tokens ( not necessary termed ‘wild’ cause there won’t be particular tokens) that are just plain blue in colour and will take in consider for all gears. Simple words a unified token for all gears. Also just imagining that upgrading 1 gear would apply to all brawlers is kinda getting me hyped , assuming, we get gear slot at power 8 😜😂😂. Again thanks kairos. Use code : #KAIROS in the shop Hoping you’ll read this .

[@experiment8924]

Your suggestion (A) shouldn't happen because it will be unfair to ppl who've bought them in club shop. (B) I fully agree with, as they can refund all the gear tokens.

[@SomeCowguy]

Just slap a darker shade of blue lightning in the middle if the blue token and its a wild token

[@ArchitMoharir]

@@experiment8924 alright yeah I get what you say. Good point

[@sonicunleshed]

I think a trait system would be better so a unique upgrade for each brawler giving them cool and unique passives as well as different play styles, they could also make it be earned by playing that brawler itself so you can progress by pushing the brawlers that you like rather than for missions and it feels rewarding playing your favorite brawlers

[@Puffi115]

I would also like to see that every brawler has different gears with same Theme, like Rosas health gear would make her regenaration in bushes 70% faster and byrons health gear would make him recover some HP when he does Damage

[@shashwat2591]

Agree with him, gear progression system needs a complete rework, the coins required to get a brawler to Power 11 are too much, Power Points can still be received much easily with club coins, and the overall gear upgradation system is really, really expensive

[@arkendubhattacharya1555]

One easy thing SC could have done is give an update with only level 10 first and then after sometime level 11 , this would have let the game feel fresh longer, more content , less grindy , less broken , less p2w..

[@drakejoshofficialyoutubech5569]

Exactly, I don't understand why we had to get both levels at once. Having something like a year in between wouldn't have been criticized nearly as much as what they did. You don't see Clash of Clans adding 2 new town hall levels in a single update because that would be stupid and make f2p/light spenders feel like the work they're putting in isn't going anywhere.

[@therandomchococat]

I’m a complete free to play player that saves gems and doesn’t buy the brawl pass and here are the current issues that I have with the game. First of all (the biggest issue) gears. As a free to play player, I was soooo close to getting all of my star powers and gadgets for my brawlers. I had nearly every brawler unlocked and I was near endgame. And then, gears get added. I didn’t really think much of it until I realized that this extended the endgame so much. As an active watcher and subscriber of this channel, I saw Kairos spending SO much money and time upgrading gears and it made me start to lose hope in even getting to endgame. Another issue about gears is that they are so unfair to free to play players. After 6 months, I have not been able to get a single gear. In fact, I haven’t even been able to get all of my brawlers to get to level 10, and I play brawl stars every single day. Along with this, I would constantly go into matches, my brawlers being 500+ trophies, and my opponents would have strong gears while the randoms on my team would have none. It’s frustrating having to lose so many matches because I’m a free to play player. Second, the new game modes. Don’t get me wrong, I love that Supercell is releasing new game modes, but I wish they didn’t cost/earn trophies. There is a special quest that I have not completed yet that is “Win 15 matches in Bot Drop.” Not going to lie, getting 1000 tokens is not worth winning 15 games of a new game mode. I’m fine with the quest because it encourages you to play the game, but the fact that it’s worth trophies makes it frustrating if you lose. I cannot tell you how many trophies I’ve lost when games like Bot Drop, Basketbrawl, Volleybrawl, and all of the other gamemodes, just because I wanted to complete the quests. Third, the fact that gems are only in the Brawl Pass. Now, everyone getting the same amount of gems per season was a little strange to me. Not going to lie, this wasn’t as big of an issue as I thought, but I still think Supercell should add at least the CHANCE to get a few gems in boxes. Brawl Stars seems more like a chore to play instead of being fun which is sad because I liked playing Brawl Stars a lot during the quarantine, which is why I’m still hoping that things will improve. Sorry, I needed to vent. Hopefully Supercell can fix their mistakes for a better future of Brawl Stars. :D

[@user-qy1oq7it5v]

I wish they did more with traits before releasing gears. Either having unique passives tied to classes, like what we have for tanks, or just brawlers have unique ones like Edgar and Daryl. They add more depth without adding more progression. And if supercell is worried about it being too complex for new players they can be unlocked after like power 5 or something.

[@santoshibasak9334]

First of all, great video as always. Secondly, I agree with all what you said about gears. *A third gear slot* *First gear slot at level 8* *Buying scrap from gold* All of this I definitely agree. I also have a few ideas that I would like to share. As Kairos mentioned, how to change each gear and giving it a few extra levels, reducing the amount of scrap is really good. But what if each brawler, had 2 normal gears(I.e. the current five) and one personalized gear for them which we can choose out of 3. For example a few personalized gears for byron can be 1. Has an extra tick of damage which deals 50% damage 2. Has a extra tick of healing which gives 50% healing 3. Super gives 5% more healing and damage. This is like starpowers but these are upgradeable when you get a duplicate of it in boxes. You need 1 to unlock, 1 more to get to lvl 2 and 2 more to get to lvl 3, which can be upgraded using gold. This will also help to use the spare gold which just starts to pile up after upgrading every brawler. This will give a good use of gold and the personalized gear will help to counter the brawlers instead of just adding new gears.

[@nazardrobinskiy1864]

I love the concept with individual brawler gear, like Penny's "Cannon ball" or Byron''s "Strange flasc" that gives you passive abilities and so on. And main core of it would be adding more player account progression with new characters. At least in my dreams it sounds gorgeous... Plus we all love you, Kairos! Especially your talkie-talkie-ness videos)))

[@soumyajeetbag2553]

Maybe just call them "items" or somethin

[@HowardGabrielPWacan]

Isn't your Idea a little bit too similar with starpowers though?

[@chazzerine7650]

Great points here. I'd definitely say the biggest bottleneck is that gears are bound to one brawler; If they make one gear able to be universally used across all brawlers, it will make it feel a lot more meaningful. My problem with having a potential 20 gears in future is that it will create the same problem with choosing gears all over again; new players will be putting too much thought into which gears to choose, and end up crafting an invisibility gear before they unlock Sandy or Leon. One way I'd address this is to have a filter, showcasing different gears in different sections, basically meaning gears will get their own classes. For instance, Damage and Shield could become "universal" gears that any brawler gains benefit from, allowing new players to prioritise these gears first before moving onto perhaps the health and resistance gears, which are in the "niche" class, suggesting that some brawlers benefit from these gears more than others. As for your point on the 5 levels, I'd keep the lvl one gears the exact same as before, and lvl 5 gears the same as old level 3 gears, and basically meaning every upgrade is half as efficient. Here, I'm trading the impact of gears being upgraded, for a less p2w aspect in fully maxed out gears, especially when you factor in the 3rd gear slot (basically, each level would boost the damage gear by 2.5% instead of 5%, meaning the damage gear would stay a 10% for lvl 1, and the lvl 5 would be a 20% damage boost, just like the old lvl 3 gear). Just some thoughts on how I could improve on your ideas

[@pyth0n930]

Onother thing that might work is if Supercell did what was in the vid, but also added brawler specific gears that would be similar to old gears, but they would benifit benefit the brawler more. These gears would only have one slot to keep it balanced. Great vid Kairos!

[@kishuthegreat2417]

"A panic gear that increases damage while you are stunned" - Kairos 2022

[@dark_artist21]

I think the whole community will agree with Kairos and his point about gears, because, I think, they really need a rework, or "balance changes". So all types of players can continue to enjoy this beautiful game and to love it :D ❤

[@x-bow4956]

mf really milking this series of complaining about supercell to whole another level complaining same thing bac to back just fot the views

[@spellfox_]

Yeah and I think just a few balance changes to the costs aren't enough. They need to be reworked from the ground up, the entire gear system is the issue, not just their absolutely ridiculous cost.

[@dark_artist21]

@@spellfox_ Yeah, completely agree with this too

[@mischief9594]

Never has a video game review made more sense on so many levels. Bro just solved brawl stars’ issues as well as a lot of other similar games. Having universal and individual abilities (in reworked gears and star powers/gadgets) adds more depth to strategies and is a lot more enticing to new and old players. Thank you for your wisdom 🫡🫡

[@GreenMask-XRGM-27]

24:55 Good concept but as an example, it still makes me fear that it would make bull, Piper, or any short range or long range brawlers more OP.

[@peanutbut2096]

Man that sounds great but I think when unlocking these new gears they should have different rarities, common gears being more generalises and the rarer ones to be more specific(and more exciting and like getting a legendary) to be more friendly to the new players

[@kjlclips449]

I agree with pretty much everything :) A permanent gear for every brawlers makes so much more sense since even with reoworks/nerfs/buffs etc. they'd still be viable for other brawlers.

[@datbubby]

I agree. I have been playing since global launch, and gears have totally changeed the game for the worse imo. still interesting :)

[@Batman-qc4bh]

do u know i quitted 1 month after gears update ? i also have been playing since global lainch

[@thebabblingfool]

This concept is honestly great - > You can have say 5-10 gears of the same type, but you can actually take them off & put them on any brawler that then makes the remaining, attachable count rise/dip. > You can actually make 'builds' & not follow the 1-3 best builds that are obviously set now in the gear meta. > You will be responsible to handle the brawlers' abilities by heightening some like range, range-based dmg, extra vision that lasts the whole game, etc. > You will still have to wait a while till you max your account out, but it's actually worth it with more stuff (if thought-up of) being added each month or so. You said it best & I completely agree with you. I wouldn't even mind if they aren't able to refund all of the gear tokens individually (as long as they do a give for the takeaway of the gears). I wouldn't even mind them having the same token based gear up system that's being going on. It'll take years & those who're restless pay which is a win-win on all ends. That, as you highlighted, does not guarantee wins. It does add to the win rate, but there are no guarantees on the wins because it will be based on skill ultimately & teamwork in team based ones. In a community that's largely F2P, I doubt anyone will have as much of a hard time, getting matched with these maxed out accounts all the time. And being an older player would actually be valuable, which could lead to more players joining in faster if the update is implemented. Who knows, some people who left might like this new wind & return, increasing the active player base. Would definitely like to see if they hear this out or come up with something building upon this that's better.

[@ArtsyAustin]

Absolutely agree with everything said in this video and yes. More gears equals more fun. Brawl Stars is trying to be a simple and straightforward game but I think it's past that point when the addition of Star Powers, Gadgets, and especially Gears were introduced. More gears would add more depth to the game, allow different playstyles, fill in and compensate for a brawler's weakness, OR even improve and amplify a brawler's strength. Overall, I would love for cheaper gears, more gears, and more scrap.

[@randomaccount6146]

Gears just don't feel right in brawl stars. A game that wants to have a bunch of characters with unique traits and supercell just decides to randomly add the same abilities to everyone.

[@poombie]

my idea for gears is that instead of buying each gear, you can buy categories of gears example: you can uprade the vision categroy and it will upgrade 3 gears, one is the vision gear we have now, one is seeing more in bushes, and one is a larger feild of view overall. this would add way more options for gears but also not hinder progression as it is now

[@darachclyde6738]

I think a good solution is that instead of buying each gear individually you buy the gear slots and upgrade them and then you can select whatever gear you want and depending on your slot level it will determine your gear level and then your current unused gears will either get converted to scraps or roll over to a total gear slot token so that if you have a lot of unused vision gears you can use them to get new slots or upgrade them, this should be down rather than just having gears shared between brawlers bc it still adds the decision making of what brawler should get high level gears first without having to get just one maxed gear for one brawler, this feature allows the feeling of powering up your brawler and reducing the amount of total gear upgrades required another feature I believe is added is the ability to convert gold or PowerPoints into gear scraps I believe keep the club shop stay the way it is but maybe add more versatility for Powerleague rewards the only use for them is either skins or 3 mega boxes every trophy season maybe add an option to buy gear scraps just suggestions can be ripped apart and analysed

[@kingillager]

I have a gear idea! A gear that makes your reload speed reload faster when standing near a wall (You don't need to touch the wall, 1+1/3 tile away from a wall will still be enough. Broken skulls, bones, water and sprouts wallss do not count. If, however, Jacky rebuilds something with her 2nd gadget, she can use it for faster ammo)

[@PlasmaUwU]

What if gears had an extra bonus if equipped with certain brawlers? People would be more influenced to use other types of gears instead of just using damage all the time. Example: Supercharged Shotgun Increases damage by 25% when under 50% health. If Shelly equips this Gear, increases reload time by 15%.

[@guilhermefeitosa7560]

Honestly, the main problem with gears is not the gears in itself, but rather how supercell implemented in the game: as a level 10 and 11 exclusive, that are expensive but necessary for competitive meta, that you have to collect multiple times for multiple brawlers. But potentially, they can become the best feature in bs. It's all a matter if supercell will understand the community demand

[@vasilispapadopoulos6563]

Totally agree. I started playing brawl stars 2 years and 4 months ago. I remember when everything was like simple. And it evolved all the time and it was just beautiful. Then Brawl pass new brawlers, new gadgets, balance changes etc. And then gears... NO THANKS. 2 friends of mine stopped playing because it seemed way to much and they were both like 1 week to get maxed out. They are too expensive and too complicated and simple on the same time, Idk. I want a reason to like play more. I am sitting in 30k and I don't want to play ladder and the pl is also tough. I've got 2 power 11 and 7-8 power 10 and it's not enough. It's hard to get good use of those freaking gears. I am tired. It's already expensive to upgrade to power 10 and 11 and gears add much more to that. Your ideas are just IDEAL Kairos. Hope they are taken into acount! Nice video by the way!

[@VIWO1]

I would make it that you can open gear slots for brawlera like gadgets or starpowers. And when you open that gear slot, you get access to all gears at lvl 1, so you can try all of them and ofcourse upgrade them and that gear lvls would be shared among all brawlers. It would be like gear libary for all brawlers.

[@Gumballcom37]

I’ve been playing the game for about a year and a half and I only have one brawler at level 11. It’s insane how much you need to progress to get into the competitive scene if you’re free to play. Heck, even if you’re pay to win.

[@coolpilot5694]

Try 3 years. I have been playing for a long time and finally got close to a maxed account and now i'm in the same boat as you

[@frshootingstar08]

I think a “trio set” would be great for gears, for example the shelly, colt and spike would share a gear when you upgrade the gear, it won’t be too hard for supercell to implement this since if you are gonna make all the gears accessible for every brawler then it would be very hard to balance it b4 this change, the set would be great since it’s just three of them , just think it as a skin set at the shop currently

[@trmwilliboy2853]

Yes

[@hurjireepz7021]

I also thought of something that can replace the gear tokens. Instead of getting gear tokens from boxes, you need to get gear blueprints to craft gears. You will only need one blueprint to craft one gear which makes that gear available to all your brawlers. I feel like this would be more fair and make a little bit more sense because gears are like attachment mods to brawlers.

[@Smile-ov1us]

I completely love this video so much!!!!!!! I left the game fairly recently as I no longer enjoyed the meta. Additionally, I had all my brawlers at max power points, I just needed the coins to get them to power 9. So I was happy that I was getting extra coins in boxes as you mentioned at 10:42. Then power 11 dropped. Suddenly, I couldn't get extra coins in the boxes as I kept getting gear tokens, scrap, and more power points because of power 11, and I had to wait extra long to get power 11!!! I have a friend who stayed in the game a bit longer but even more recently left the game as well, and he was saying that a ton of people on his friends list hadn't been on in weeks. Supercell is killing their game and i really hope they listen to this video (personally I don't like the idea of gears at all, but I hope they at least balance them)

[@arthurvanderschot1793]

Supercell if you read these comments please listen to Kairos! He really represents and voices all the issues the community has. I literally agree with everything except maybe for 3 gear slots (although that's nice some combos might be broken and need nerf just because of that combo). You can try but then you have to be very careful and monitor the meta which means more work for you :/ . I also saw a nice comment about "wild gear tokens which you could use to upgrade any gear and I like the idea if you decide to stay with the current system. Otherwise I want to compliment you and I think I speak for everyone when I say this is the most amazing mobile game ever. (Also really nice that you put welcoming week rewards for new players!!!)

[@manitsareen2489]

I really loved the ideas you mentioned in this video and i feel that if supercell changes the gear system in the way you mentioned the game could much more fun and enjoyable. Thanks a lot for making the video and addressing the issues in the best way.

[@augustdruzgal475]

One of the big problems with brawl stars right now is just the sheer amount of brawlers there are in the game. To not lose trophies in the season resets, you need to push *57* brawlers, which means you need to push for about 4 hours just so you can lose that amount of trophies the next day instead of losing 12 hours of gameplay worth of trophies. There needs to be some form of fix for this, because the time keeps going up. Pushing like this takes a ridiculously large amount of time for no benefit.

[@emoney1100]

Can SuperCell just hire Kairos already? His passion and detail oriented intellect is unmatched.

[@liolucifer]

I agree with this video, but I would like you to talk about how Supercell should deal with updates from now on due to the Season Pass. It sort of feels like all the updates so far this year aren't as exciting as other years, along with almost EVERY brawler being chromatic, it's just getting boring, and gears added to the boredom.

[@ballora2445]

The fact that Kairos had to make 2 videos to show all of the negatives sides of Gears really shows how Supercell messed up :/ (And also, I agree with everything you said)

[@SirKnightDoge]

Yeah…

[@alexandergilles8583]

And the fact that he had to make a second video really shows how much supercell doesn’t GAF about what people think about gears. Considering the massive amount of backlash from the community AND content creators, you’d think after 6 months they would’ve done SOMETHING, even something small

[@MonkeyJazz75]

I had a maxed-out account pre-gears as a low-med spender, mostly just buying every brawl pass and the occasional on sale skin I really liked. I can't even imagine how many years it would take to "max" out my account again from an already maxed account prior... And what I mean by "max" would be having 2 level 3 gears on every brawler. That's absurd. I just recently got all my brawlers to level 10+, spending over 150k gold I had saved, I have a handful of level 11s, but the vast majority of my level 10s don't even have a gear equipped. 3 of my favourite level 11s have 2 level 3 gears, most have either level 1s or 2s. I just don't have the tokens for them. Not even close. I like close-med range brawlers and had a level 3 resistance gear on a few of them, because where else would they go, and now they're literally useless on them. The whole system is honestly a disgrace IMHO. I, like Kairos, used to tell all of my friends about how incredibly F2P friendly Brawl Stars was and while that's still fairly true for the early-mid area of account progression, it is abysmal for the late end of progression. I genuinely think, after about 3 years of playing Brawl Stars literally every single day, if they release something as bad as Gears again I'll quit. Gears really made me consider it, and there wont be any hesitation for me next time. The devs have shown they are SO MUCH BETTER than this so many times over, I just hope they show it again. Even the fact that gears have been out for half a year at this point with no meaningful change whatsoever is a very big spit in the community's face IMO.

[@entchie8018]

He actually predicted some of the new mythic gears lol

[@grahamtheturtle6126]

This is literally perfect imo! Brawls stars could make a comeback with this change!

[@Corescos]

I think that this new gear system allows for so much more creativity with design, such as a pet gear where pets/summons have a 10% shield or something different

[@yanhernandez1351]

I think they should make like 30 or 40 gears and distribute them between all brawlers (they can repeat in different brawlers) So that each brawler has a different set of gears but some can repeat. That way unlocking gears feel individual for each brawler but they would still be useful for different brawlers. For example sharpshooters could get a gear that buffs the dmg the longer the attack and tanks could get a gear that buffs dmg at short range, healers could get buffed healing, slowing brawlers could get more slowing time and so on. I think this could enhance brawler archetypes and would solve most of the issues

[@treyponzi3647]

For me personally I’ve been playing since late beta and I’m completely f2p, and had a maxed out account all the time except when they added new content like SP’s or gadgets. Now I have 8 maxed out brawlers and it feels like I’m making almost no account progression. I remember at one point I used to play this game religiously 6-7 hours a day because of how much I enjoyed it, now I don’t play as much because I got really busy with school but upgrading everything to level 11 and gears has almost deterred me from playing entirely even though as I mentioned I have loved this game(maybe even more than Kairos) for a long time and it saddens me that it only took one thing to turn me off

[@KojoBailey]

The only other thing I'd as in either reducing the cost to reach level 11 (in both coins and power points), or not having levels 10 and 11 give passive stat buffs. This way, level 9 is the even playing field, then allowing players to strategies by building on gears, star powers and gadgets.

[@ashcheung4325]

Then the brawlers that are Lvl 10/11 will turn into Lvl 9? Wasting like 5000 WCPP and coins?

[@KojoBailey]

@@ashcheung4325 no, because the whole purpose would be to unlock the last 2 gear slots for that brawler (assuming one is also unlocked at level 8)

[@ProPPlayer]

22:34 You could also get another duplicate to level the gears up, and make them upgradable to level 5.

[@dyyd7774]

If supercell is just not reworking gears to be this way because they’re out of ideas, here are some I’ve come up with for supercell’s own use 1. A gear which increases your speed by (1,2,4,5,7)% per every ammo you have, this would be to help melee and assassin brawlers get in and get the kill while making their escape harder because they wouldn’t have the speed buff anymore 2. A healing gear that would make you take (5,10,15,20,25)% less damage for (1.5,2,2.5,3,3.5) seconds after healing an ally brawler, this could give healers like baron and poco a lot more survivability while emphasizing Pam to use her turret on allies 3. A revenge gear, when ever one of your spawnables dies the brawler that landed the last blow will be mark for (2,2.5,3,3.5,4) seconds, this mark makes you deal (5,10,15,20,25)% more damage to the marked target and gain an extra (60,70,80,90,100)% super charge off of them, this could encourage characters like mr p and eve to become much more aggressive or could provide brawlers like Jessie and Nita a way to get they’re spawnables back out quickly 4. A reveal gear, in which when your attack would reveal a hidden and/or invisible brawler that attack would deal an extra (25,40,55,70,100)% damage, this could be used to counter Leon or Sandy but it could also cripple bush campers as well 5. When ever you evade an attack by going behind a wall and or teammate you gain (100,125,150,175,200) extra sheild hp, this could be used on almost any thrower to give them a bonus for staying back and playing safe or it could encourage team compositions with an emphasis on one or two tanks with a squishy target in the back or even encourage your team to work together so your healer in the back line gains an extra safety net

[@reubenkessler-cohen4021]

Idea: You buy gears, choosing between 30, and when you buy them you can use them on any power 10-11 brawler. This makes it so you can use gears without needing to pay as much. As a Free To Play, this would make me able to focus on getting power points and not gear tokens and scrap. Great vid!

[@hyumiliatedbs3355]

Heal gears should be received 15% additional heal from any sources (on max lvl)

[@Wasted117.]

Heal is fine as it is.

[@hyumiliatedbs3355]

@@Wasted117. i want low hp brawler could use it better with healer teammates

[@Wasted117.]

@@hyumiliatedbs3355 😭😭bro do you not know how broken it would be with ash?

[@hyumiliatedbs3355]

@@Wasted117. i know

[@Wasted117.]

@@hyumiliatedbs3355 exactly then, stupid idea

[@atreeseedling]

I feel like gear tokens and gear scrap should be purchasable using star coins, because they're kinda useless right now(only being used to buy skins and boxes) and i feel like that it's going to be a great addition

[@Thorough_Gamer]

I think instead of allowing players to pass gears on to every brawler it should be a family system thing that branches off the lore of the game. So Bonnie, Janet, and stu (and who ever else is in that family) would be the only ones who benefit from the gears you leveled up in that family. By doing it this way you add more depth to the games story. Also creating room in the future for another game mechanic in the future. ( just thought of this off the top of my head) but a family bonus where if you have two members of a family play together you get "x" amount of coins, exp, or even damage. And if you 3 members you get more. Also if BS decides to add game modes with say 5 v 5 you could branch off that mechanic even more. Obviously tweaking the numbers as game modes get higher, so it's not to abuse the system. (I got this idea from a mobile game I played back in the day. Afk Arena)

[@Morgan-ky1gr]

Gears are honestly what made me stop playing the game. I always get tempted to come back when new brawlers are released but gears just frustrate me sooo much

[@elliotwinn9069]

They really don’t have that much of an effect lmao get over it

[@tyler-brawlstars2030]

@@elliotwinn9069 yea I mean I get what everyone is saying about why gears suck and all but if u quit the game because of gears that's kinda weird they really aren't that bad.

[@elliotwinn9069]

@@tyler-brawlstars2030 theyre kinda minor to play against and small buff for you

[@tyler-brawlstars2030]

@@elliotwinn9069 yea

[@ardorblossom]

I feel like im alone in also thinking star powers/gadgets need to be addressed. Over time star powers have shifted from a little boost to something that completely make or breaks a brawler and actively punishes people that havent opened the star power yet or are power 7/8 and can be annoying when youre trying to push your entire account up and the last brawlers are actively weaker than the enemy who higher up can be power 10/11. Older star powers that used to be good needed to be increased significantly like bear with me to be able to compete with the new meta. Brawlstars also has to balance around these star powers which just makes not having them worse as some star powers are too good to the point where the base brawler is just worse as a result, some times they even nerf the base brawler to try and balance the brawler with star powers which is not good when the base brawler isnt that good either like 8-bit. To try and make boosted booster more viable compared to plugged in, they nerfed the damage boost from 8-bit and made it so boosted booster gave back the damage, which did make boosted booster a more viable option in comparison but it wouldve been better if they didnt have to make base 8-bit worse to do this and couldve just added a downside to plugged in so it would have lowered damage as a trade off for the speed, though i can see it being an issue as you might not have the other star power and not want to have the downside I feel like forcing it onto the base brawler is unfair, they couldve even just buffed boosted booster to have a bigger buff instead. Gadgets are better as they are easier to obtain and are at a lower power so are much more accessible, but there are over 100 gadgets and it may take months after you get a brawler to power 7 to even get and some gadgets are just required to have, like crows slowing toxins completely carry crow in the meta, and without it he is really not that great. Some star powers and gadgets are perfectly fine as they are and the base brawler is great, but for a lot of other brawlers they are really bad without them and are completely useless to play above 500 and this issue has been addressed a bit with brawlers like surge, mr p and mortis but there are still lots of brawlers left that have this exact issue too.

[@RealValkor]

Gadgets are pretty easy to unlock so the punishment isn't that big but god, starpowers take FOREVER to unlock, and I usually just have to buy them from the shop anyway.

[@avoc-brawlstars217]

I agree, for a couple of months I have had 36 brawler upgrades, and with all the new brawlers, I don’t have time to save coins and upgrade my brawlers! :(

[@Juicyredapples]

All I wanna know is that why do they keep giving me gear tokens when I have them all maxed out? You see, it's REALLY minimizing the chances of me getting star powers or gears or even brawlers. Some times when I open a brawl box I just end up getting a gear token( which is literally useless since they've been maxed out) and nothing else. If supercell fixes this then I'm totally fine with gears and all.

[@The_fox_zoophile]

#KairosTimeGaming, Got some ideas cost in scrap. Gear Tokens needed 1. 10 000 100 2. 20 000. 200 3. 40 000. 300 4. 75 000. 400 5. 100 000. 500 Here is an idea of mine (it is so expensive because otherwise you would be done in no time) (bringing gear tokens back. because, you upgrade one, You upgrade it for every brawler). Scrap drop rate (about 100 per box)so mega box = about 1000 Token drop rate (1 per box)so mega box = 10 Some gear ideas Movement speed(in bushes) Movement speen(in general) Range Damage(under 50%) Damage in general) Super charge Super damage Reload speed Etc (Everything that a player has spent on gears would be refunded after the update) Gears will be unlocked at 1500 trophies (so you would unlock them pretty fast but you are already a bit used to the game) Than the power levels Pover lvl. Pwr points. Gold 1. 10. 10 2. 20. 20 3. 40. 40 4. 80. 80 5. 150. 200 6. 300. 500 7. 500. 800 8. 800. 1000 9. 1000. 1250 10. 1500. 1500 11. 2000. 2100 (Unlocked) Pover level. Unlocked 5. Gear 1 7. Gadget 8. Gear 2 9. Star power 10. Gear 3 11. Gear 4 I know it is a lot, but the gear 3 (power level 10) is released when we have 10 gears. Please if you see this, can you answer with something you would change about this ⬆️⬆️⬆️ (This took a long time(about 15 minutes) so not that long but please give feedback (thank you)

[@tommyraven06g67]

Personally is a fine change but the price,....... Questionable

[@yaboihades6669]

Exactly what I wanted to say and I actually left the game when the gears were released after playing 4 freaken years, after that I never downloaded Brawl Stars again.

[@elliotwinn9069]

That’s sick bro. Supercell is crying rn

[@gauravsawant4093]

How about this? We can have 20 gears in the game and we have upgrade a gear only once and we can equip it on any brawler. That way we can have unique combinations of gears. One gear would cost like 10 gear tokens and 1000 scrap. Once its upgraded its available to all brawlers. So instead of upgrading 5 gears for every single brawler, we can upgrade 20 gears that can be used for any brawler

[@ooohyeahfreshwater4124]

I would love if gears are shared and having 1 gear slot for every brawler and 1 for each class! A heal or super gear for supports, some reload gear for damage dealers, a gear to help burst damage or escape for assassins, and health or resistence gear for tanks. This could bring more classes with real function to brawl stars and help to new players undeartand what is the "role" for each brawler in game.

[@nokostunes]

i can't thank you enough for always advocating for the community :] really hoping for a day where i don't have vision gear on mortis